The following figures do not include $3.4 million in costs for land and preliminary design work, which voters have previously approved.

May 5 building committee meeting - $16.8 million estimated cost of two-story design including estimated $2 million in revenue dedicated to the project from anticipated sale of two Fire District properties

March 5 special district meeting - $19.8 million for 42,695-square-foot building rejected

June 2013 - $21.2 million estimate for 49,023-square-foot building after concerns raised over earlier proposal

HYANNIS — On Monday the Hyannis Fire District building committee will get a gander at the latest plans for a new station.

After district voters rejected a $19.8 million plan at a March 5 special meeting, fire officials and architects eliminated the proposed building's third story and focused on the sale of district-owned property to bring the cost down. The March vote was 210-169 in favor of the project but failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required for passage.

"We were charged with going back to the drawing board to relook at everything, so we've done that," project manager Paul V. Griffin Jr. of Marlboro-based Construction Monitoring Services said.

Fire officials have readied parcels of land in Hyannisport and on Bearse's Way to be sold with the revenue dedicated to the new station's costs, Griffin said.

The goal of the sales is to bring in about $2 million, he said.

"They're pushing us to get at least $1 million out of the building," Griffin said about the cost savings anticipated from the redesign.

Both moves would reduce the cost of construction and equipping the building to under $17 million, but it's still unclear if that will be enough to satisfy critics.

"I think they're pretty optimistic about the price on the land," William Cronin, president of the Greater Hyannis Civic Association and a vocal opponent of the proposal's cost and size, said about the property being sold.

Cronin said the Fire District needs to look at alternative materials and a price of $10 million to $12 million, not including $3.4 million district voters previously approved to buy land where the station would be located and for preliminary design costs. The $19.8 million plan and the new estimates from Griffin also don't include that spending.

Hyannis Fire Chief Harold Brunelle said he has spoken with other residents, including members of the civic association, who he thinks will be pleased with the changes.

"We have citizens all the time telling myself and my staff whatever you do don't half-ass it," he said.

While the previous plans included a third floor as part of a cost- and space-saving effort, the calculations changed as half that floor was cut to try and save even more money, Brunelle said.

"By doing away with the third floor it saves the extra stairwell costs, elevator costs, corridor space, so on and so forth we would have to put up there for only half of the floor," Brunelle said. "Now we're looking at a two-story model that I think visually to the citizens will be more acceptable."

While he would have preferred some of the earlier proposals from an operational standpoint, the new plans seem to address the public's concerns about the building's size and the department's needs, at least in the short term, Brunelle said.

"I felt more comfortable going into the future with some of the other designs, but the citizens are the ultimate decision makers," he said.

Brunelle said he would continue to push for using brick on the building because it will last longer than other materials.

"One thing we've never had to mess with on this building 49 years old is the brick," he said about the current station.

The new plans call for the living areas for Fire Department personnel to be on the first floor and the building's public and administrative space to be located on the second floor, he said.

"We can't please them all," Brunelle said. "We have to make a decision and move forward because it has to operationally work well."

Brunelle said officials have always intended to put money from the sale of two district-owned parcels toward the new building but may not have been clear enough with voters about that plan before the March 5 meeting.

Paul Sullivan, chairman of the Hyannis Fire District board of commissioners, said the commissioners are waiting to see what is presented Monday before deciding what to do next.

Commissioner Richard Gallagher, who is chairman of the building committee and facing a re-election challenge this month, said the hope is to put a new plan in front of voters before a mid-July deadline for the district to pay out $328,000 for preliminary design work. That spending can be rolled into a long-term bond, saving money, if the district can reach a decision before the July date.

"What we're hoping is to go back to the citizens well before July 18," Gallagher said.

The fire station proposal has sparked a push by some residents to have fire districts covered by the state's Proposition 2½ law, which limits the amount municipalities and other entities can raise taxes each year but doesn't currently apply to fire districts.